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Online social network and country lifestyle portal Digital Rodeo held their first DRX Monthly Showcase of 2015 on Tues., Jan. 20 at 3rd and Lindsley.
The January DRX Showcase featured up-and-coming artists Amanda Winter, James Carothers, Nate Green, Brandon Alan and Ty Bates, and was hosted by Deborah Allen. To learn more about these artists, please visit their artist profiles on www.DigitalRodeo.com.
Each act performed two songs compacted into a one-hour show, which
was backed by the 3rd and Lindsley house band, consisting of members Tim
Horsley (drums), Robbie Emerson (bass, vocals), Erik Halbig (guitar),
Mike Webb (keys) and Scotty Huff (guitar, vocals, music director).
Previous showcases have featured hosts Linda Davis, Andy Griggs and
Bryan White.
The next DRX Showcase is set for Feb. 24 at 3rd and Lindsley.
Digital Rodeo is now seeking showcase sponsorships for it’s 2015
shows. For more information and inquiries, please contact John Pyne at john.pyne@digitalrodeo.com or Bev Moser at bev.moser@digitalrodeo.com.Pictured below L to R: Brandon Alan, Nate Green, Deborah Allen, Amanda Winter, Ty Bates and James Carothers.Photo Credit: Bev Moser

Award-winning bluegrass songwriter and former top country-music journalist Dixie Hall has passed away at age 80.
The wife of Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Tom T. Hall died on
Friday, January 15, following a long illness. She and her husband won
Songwriter of the Year honors from SPBGMA (the Society for the
Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America) for 10 consecutive years.
She also co-wrote songs with Jeanette Williams, Billy Smith and Country
Music Hall of Fame member Maybelle Carter, among others.
Dixie Hall founded the record label Blue Circle Records, the
publishing company Good Home Grown Music and a recording studio. In the
1960s, she was the editor of country music’s biggest periodical.
Born Iris Violet May Lawrence in a town near Manchester, England, she
wrote poetry as a youngster. During the 1950s, she became a
country-music fan and began working as an overseas representative for
Tex Ritter, Starday Records and other Nashvillians.
She moved to Music City in 1961 and was adopted by the legendary
Maybelle Carter. Iris Lawrence adopted “Dixie Dean” as her Nashville pen
name. She and Carter co-wrote the Johnny Cash songs “A Letter From
Home” and “Troublesome Waters.”

Bobby Cyrus with Tom T. and Dixie Hall. Photo: Bev Moser

Also as “Dixie Dean,” she co-wrote the 1965 Dave Dudley hit “Truck
Drivin’ Son-of-a-Gun.” Under this same byline, she wrote celebrity
profiles for the Music City News fan magazine and eventually
became its editor. She met Tom T. Hall at a BMI awards banquet in 1964.
They married in 1968. For many years, she raised and trained
award-winning basset hounds while her husband became a country
superstar.
Dixie Hall reactivated her songwriting in the 1990s. Tom T. Hall
wanted to retire, but she urged him to continue writing by becoming his
collaborator. This is also when she established their record label,
song-publishing company and recording studio, all headquartered at their
Williamson County home, Fox Hollow.
She subsequently wrote or co-wrote more than 500 recorded bluegrass
songs. They were sung by a who’s-who of the genre, including The
Grascals, Special Consensus, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Don
Rigsby, Josh Williams, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, James
Monroe, Dale Ann Bradley, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, Little
Roy Lewis and Paul Williams.
She produced the all-female ensemble Daughters of Bluegrass. The group’s Pickin’ Like a Girl
record was totally comprised of Dixie Hall songs and won an award from
the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) in 2010.
Carlene Carter included Dixie’s co-written “Troublesome Waters” on her 2014 CD Carter Girl. Miranda Lambert placed Dixie’s co-written “All That’s Left” on her million-selling 2014 CMA Album of the Year winner Platinum.
Dixie Hall’s funeral will be private, according to The Tennessean. Tom T. Hall reportedly plans a celebration of his wife’s life and music at a later date.